Improvement in sash supporter and fastener



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

J. qW. LIVINGSTON AND S. A. LIVINGSTON, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN SASH SUPPORTER AND FASTENER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 58,655, dated October 9, 1866.

To all whom Iit may concern.-

Beit known that we, J. W. LIVINGSTON and S. A. LIVINGSTON, of the city and county of Hartford, and State of Connecticut, have in vented a new and Improved Sash-Supporter and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

The present invention relates to a simple, cheap, and efficient attachment to the sashframe of a window, to act as a support or fastener thereto when it is raised or lowered, as will be obvious from the following detail description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying plate of drawings, in which-- Figure l is a view of one side of the sashframe, with it broken out to show the vmanner of arrangiu g our improved supporter therein; Fig. 2, a transverse section taken in the plane of the line tr a', Fig. l; Figs. 3 and 4, detail views.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

A in the drawings represents one side of a sash-frame, which is to be suitably cut out upon its edge in contact with the windowframe to receive the sash-supporter B, which is made and arranged as follows: C, a frame or plate made of cast or malleable iron or any other suitable metal or material; D, a friction-roller having a rubber band, E, placed around its periphery; F, a spring made of metal and punched out of a sheet in the form plainly shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings that is, with two arms, G G.

The roller D is hung in bearings upon the back or rear side of the frame or plate O, with its periphery projecting through an opening, H, in the said plate, this roller bein gA held in and to its bearin gs upon the plate by means of the two arms G G of the spring F, that is secured to the plate A in proper position therefor when the plate is secured in and to the edge of the sash, so as to be Hush, or nearly so, therewith.

From the above description of the arrangement of the friction-roller D in the sash-frame it is plainly obvious that if the sash-frame is either raised or lowered it will be held in any desired position or height by the said frictionroller D, which, by its arrangement, thus operates as a support therefor, and that, furthermore, if a cavity or depression bc formed in the lower portieri of the window-frame in proper position to receive the friction-roller, when the sash is closed down upon the windowsill, by the use of a pin, K, inserted in the sash and in proper position, that, when pushed in, it will come to a bearing against the periphery or edge of the said roller and prevent it from moving inward, a perfect fast ening of the sash is secured, as by means of such' pin, when so brought to bear against the frictioirroller, it is rendered imposssible for the roller to move out of the cavity ofthe window-frame until such pin has been relieved therefrom We claim as lnew and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. The friction-roller D and spring F, when combined and arranged substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. In combination with thc foregoing, the use of a pin, K, or its equivalent, as and for the purpose described.

The above specification of our invention signed by us the 4th and days of April, 1866, resliectively.

S. A. LIVINGSTON. JOSEPH YV. LIVINGSTON.

/Vitnesses for S. A. Livingston;

WM. F. MGNAMARA, ALBERT W. BROWN.

Witnesses for J. W. Livingston:

BENJ. C. RAY, WM. H. HrGGs. 

